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Episode 308: Supporting Airway Health with Kristina Wolf, MS, DMD

2 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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This YouTube interview episode (Episode 308: Supporting Airway Health with Kristina Wolf, MS, DMD) discusses multidisciplinary perspectives on orthodontics that include airway, breathing, posture, and collaboration with osteopathic practitioners. The speaker highlights limitations of conventional orthodontic practice—its narrow focus on dentoalveolar mechanical forces—and describes the Nuvola system as a method that merges constant/light orthodontic forces with clear aligners to address broader craniofacial and airway concerns.

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It's not just the teeth and the maxilla and the mandible. So he was trained, you know, not only to evaluate the dentition, because he's an orthodontist there, but he was also trained as an MD So he was trained to evaluate posture. He was trained to evaluate breathing. He was trained to evaluate kind of everything. And so in that training and working with the osteopathy doctors and things that he was working with, you know, he came to realize there's just so much limitation to what we do orthodontically. We're just kind of focusing on these mechanical forces. We're destro. Strictly focusing on dentoalveolar forces. And so he came up with this system called the Nuvola system, whereby we can basically merge the. The constant orthodontic forces, those light forces that we're getting, and using it with a clear aligner system. Actually.